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Overview of the artificial sweeteners in the US.

Overview of the artificial sweeteners in the US.

Artificial sweeteners are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

As of 2013, only five artificial sweeteners are approved on the USA market.

Approximately 15% of the total United States population above the age of 2 years use artificial sweeteners, knowingly or not (From: NIH.gov).

Artificial sweeteners are not allowed in the organic food (from: USDA.gov)

Saccharin

Status: Approved in US

From May 1980 to December 2010 was listed as a hazardous substances by the EPA. Listing was removed upon request from the Calorie Control Council, a group “representing the low-calorie and reduced-fat food and beverage industry”.

Severe adverse reactions in people with mood disorders (From: NIH.gov)

It is not strictly non-caloric (4 Kcal/g) and forbidden in people with phenylketonuria (From: NIH.gov)

Formaldehyde is produced in the body as aspartame is being digested (from NIH.gov)

At the body temperature (above 86F / 30C), the wood alcohol in aspartame coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus people may be misdiagnosed with having multiple sclerosis. (From: NIH.gov)

Neotame is the most potent sweetener on the market, at 7,000 times the sweetness of sucrose (sugar). (From: NIH.gov)

Neotame is chemically related to aspartame, but it is chemically more stable, enabling this sweetener to be used in baked foods (From: NIH.gov)

No independent studies have been published on Neotame. Only 4 results come up in PubMed search for Neotame toxicity, of which 2 studies are done by the Nutrasweet themselves, and the other two are not studies.